ANTILEGOMENA (ἀντιλεγόμενα). In the history of the NT Canon, this is a term used to describe books which were disputed in the first few centuries of the Church. Eusebius used it of two distinct groups: (1) those books well-known and recognized as canonical by most, of which he names James, Jude, 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John; and (2) those which he considered spurious, such as the Acts of Paul, Shepherd of Hermas, Apocalypse of Peter, Barnabas, and the Didaché. The former group were later fully accepted by all as Scripture. (See Euseb. Hist. III. 25.)